Creative Alignment Between Industry & Academia to Build Entry Level Talent Pipeline

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Dr. Parag Diwan
VICE CHANCELLOR
Feb. 2014
Creative Alignment Between
Industry & Academia to Build Entry
Level Talent Pipeline
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Presented at the 1st
Aerospace HR
Roundtable
The Leela Palace Hotel, Bengaluru
organised by UPES Dehradun &
ISPe

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Way points
 Aerospace Industry Outlook
 Defense offsets and changing patterns
 Right talent key to propel the growth Aerospace
 Industry and Academia: Common goals but operate in isolation
 Industry Academia alignment inevitable
 Initiatives of UPES for development of Aerospace Talent
 Conclusion
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Aerospace Industry Outlook
 Defense:
► Union Budget of India outlays 40.44 billion USD for defense expenditure in
2012-13 making India in top 10 country in terms of defense expenditure
► Capital investment of INR 9400 crore during the 12th
FY plan in comparison
to INR1400 crore in 11th
five year plan.
 Space:
► 12th
FY plan has allocated INR 55,000 crore to Department of Space in
comparison to INR 30, 883 crore in 11th FY plan
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Source: Planning Commission Working Group Report on Civil Aviation and Aerospace (2012)

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Aerospace Industry Outlook
 Civil Aviation:
► Domestic Pax @15.9% & International Pax @ 10.4% CAGR from 2003-12
► Total freight handled at Indian airport @ 10.9% CAGR from 2007-12
► India’s aircraft fleet must quadruple by 2031 to keep pace with passenger growth
► Planning commission forecasts Indian airports will be handling 270 million Pax
by end of 12th
Five year plan
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Source: Planning Commission Working Group Report on Civil Aviation and Aerospace (2012), Airbus & Boeing CMO 2012

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Defense offsets and Changing Patterns…
 30% plough back of Forex outflow
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Source: Planning Commission Working Group Report on Aerospace (2012), Aerospace Technology.com 2012, E & Y 2009
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Defense offsets and Changing Patterns…
 30% plough back of Forex outflow
 USD 10-20 billion investment by the year 2017
 25 initial pacts signed by EADS - to outsource USD 136 million
business in India
 USD 600 million worth business has been outsourced by Boeing to
seven Indian companies
 USD 20 billion worth bid is to be done by Boeing
 Leading Indian companies Reliance, Tata, Mahindra, Bharat Earth
Movers, Wipro, HCL & HAL are enhancing their defense offering
 USD 1 billion to be invested by Reliance. Employment of 1500 people
 HAL also to enhance manpower
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Source: Planning Commission Working Group Report on Aerospace (2012), Aerospace Technology.com 2012, E & Y 2009
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Right talent key to propel the growth Aerospace….
 Acute shortage of skilled manpower for growth of Aviation Industry in India
 77 AME institutes producing around 5,000 engineers per year but most of
AME graduates being absorbed as technicians
 About 150+ institutes are offering aerospace engineering courses but only
few institute offers quality education
“Quality Education is the bottom line for fostering Aerospace Talent”
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Source: Planning Commission Working Group Report on Civil Aviation (2012), HT Campus (2014)

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Industry and Academia: Common goals but operate in
isolation
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INDUSTRY ACADEMIA
Want QUALIFIED GRADUATES from academia
Want employment for graduates
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Industry and Academia alignment is Inevitable…
Several creative ways to align activities between Industry and Academia
 Tailored courses as per specific need of industry
 Train the trainers i.e. faculty to be trained by industry
 Focus on competency based skill development
 Design lifelong career development plan
 Training labs must be comparable to industry
 Academia research centres engaged in knowledge generation and
giving leads to R & D organizations for specific product development
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Initiatives of UPES for development of Aerospace Talent
 UPES is amongst a group of very select institutes in India providing unique
courses in the field of aerospace
 The basket of programmes in the domain of Aerospace being offered by UPES
are:
► M Tech Computational Fluid Dynamics, a course with advanced aerodynamics and
programming for numerical analysis
► B Tech Aerospace Engineering, a unique combined course in aeronautical, space science
and avionics
► B Tech Aerospace Engineering (with specialization in Avionics) Engineering designed to
specific areas of aerospace and avionics integrating key concepts and techniques from the
field of aeronautics, electronics and instrumentation
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Aerospace Laboratory at UPES
 The Aerospace laboratories at UPES are equipped to cater
specific requirement in the field of Aero Modeling &
Fabrication, Aerodynamics, Fluid mechanics, Avionics,
propulsion and structure
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Laurels
 Our students have bagged
► NASA System Engineering Award,
► CANSAT International award,
► National Aerospace Olympiad,
► IREC 2013 International competition award &
► UPES Alumni part of Team Indus, contesting for Google Lunar X prize
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Conclusion
 While a respectable amount of independence has been attained in space
technology, India’s dependence on foreign technology in Aircraft (defense
and civil) remains a matter of national concern as cost of importing these
technologies is prohibitive.
 A close cooperation between Industry, R&D organization and Academia is to
be forged. Where the academia contributes knowledge generation, the R&D
organization engage in specific product developments and industry focus on
mass production.
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